Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Security Support Engineer Lead to provide support to our Federal government contract.

 

**Due to the nature of the contract and customer US Citizenship is required. 

Responsibilities

 

 

• Provide management, development, and coaching of Cybersecurity System and Tool support staff.
• Serve as a technical liaison between sub-organizations, project managers, and vendors/clients.
• Provide engineering support, system administration, and software development for a variety of security operations tools/systems.
• Plan, test, and implement upgrades, patches, and system enhancements.
• Tune systems and tools to ensure high levels of system and infrastructure availability.
• Ensure robust systems security controls architectures based on current security best practices and industry frameworks.
• Manage/deploy and troubleshoot multiple endpoint security agent products.
• Establish and maintain cybersecurity system and tools operational metrics.
• Implement, manage, and proactively monitor central logging of feeds to enterprise SIEM for all systems and agents.
• Deliver after-hours on-call emergency support of systems, tools, and agents to address mission-impacting issues.
• Provide system and tool specialized training and technical guidance.
• Ensure adherence to change management practices for systems and agents.
• Deploy and maintain adequate development test capabilities/environments for systems and agents.
• Research, identify, and implement proof of concepts for emerging and innovative technologies.
• Perform health and performance monitoring of systems and agents, addressing all significant issues with thorough documented root cause analysis.
• Update/create documentation for systems/tools as needed.
• Participate in special projects as required.

 

 

Qualifications

 

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in network engineering, computer engineering, electrical/electronic engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.
• 12+ years of combined technical experience in systems security solutions at the enterprise level.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication.
• Project management experience, capable of delegating and assigning tasks with the ability to manage through completion.
• Ability to manage team/individual capacity to ensure team members are not overwhelmed while managing coverage of all tasks.
• Strong technical hands-on experience in implementation and operation of systems security technologies.
• One or more certifications in information security or networking.

 

Experience, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent teamwork skills and ability to collaborate with a diverse team of skilled cybersecurity professionals.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Strong Windows and Linux administration experience.
• Active Directory and Group Policy management experience.
• Experience with enterprise-level backup products.
• Experience in integrating, configuring, and system administration of security tools.
• AWS Cloud experience.
• Experience deploying and managing SIEM products.

 

Preferred Qualifications and Experience

• PMP Ceritification
• Experience with network monitoring tools.
• Hands-on experience with VMWare.
• Experience deploying and managing a SAN.
• Federal government or federal contracting experience.
• Experience in using Jira and Agile methodology.

 

Salary - $140,000 - $180,000 DOE